HOMARUS GAMMERUSLiquid

Homarus gammerus is a valuable and significant homoeopathic medicine prepared from the triturated digesting fluid of the lobster (Homarus), derived from the Crustaceæ family. This medicine is known for its broad therapeutic influence on the nervous system, respiratory tract, digestive organs, joints, and skin. It is especially suited for cases involving chronic dyspepsia, nervous exhaustion, muscular and joint pains, œdema, allergic reactions, and disturbed sleep. It is characterized by sensations of burning, aching, scalding, restlessness, and pruritus, often aggravated at night or after retiring. It is also notable for its action on the spleen, liver, diaphragm, and respiratory passages, making it an beneficial medicine for both functional and inflammatory states of the body, often where nervous irritability coexists with systemic weakness.

Common Name: Lobster

SBL’s Homarus gammerus can be helpful in the following conditions:

Frigtened and Mental Fatigue

• Homarus gammerus supports frightened, nervous states with dread of motion.
• Useful in dullness, mental fatigue, and aversion to exertion.
• Assists in emotional restlessness and a strange disconnected sensation when trying to grasp objects.

Limbs and Joint Pains

• Helpful in bone-deep pains in arms, elbows, and wrists, worse on the right side.
• Alleviates pain in thighs, knees, and feet, often burning or laming in nature.
• Manages weakness and trembling of the knees, more pronounced in the afternoon.
• Assists in grinding joint pain, especially around the metatarso-phalangeal joints.

Dyspnea and Burning in Chest

• Relieves shortness of breath, especially after retiring.
• Aids in sharp pains in the lungs, both left and right, radiating to the scapula and diaphragm.
• Useful in burning sensations in the chest, around the sternum, and through the lungs.

Stomach Distress and Abdominal Pains

• Supports morning belching, stomach distress, and burning after meals.
• Aids in pain across the epigastric region, radiating to the back or kidneys.
• Useful in diaphragmatic pain, spleen and liver tenderness, and abdominal pressure after eating.

Irregular Bowels

• Manages alternating diarrhea and constipation, shifting every few days.
• Indicated in tenacious, large stools passed with difficulty after disturbed sleep.
• Helps in frequent urging, often followed by relief after passing gas.

Back and Spine Discomfort

• Assists in aching beneath the diaphragm, scapulae, and lower back.
• Sharp pains near the kidneys and iliac crest may appear suddenly and force one to sit down.

Skin Eruptions and Pruritus

• Aids in itching all over the body, often changing locations and worse at night.
• Beneficial for burning, biting, and darting sensations, especially on the lower limbs and calves.
• May be followed by oedema of the lips and throat, especially after intense itching episodes.

Sleep Disorders

• Supports individuals who are restless at night, often waking shortly after falling asleep.
• Aids in insomnia from systemic pain, particularly in the epigastric region, limbs, and back.
• Often experiences disturbed sleep with vivid sensations, hot feet, and sensation of trembling without actual movement.

Headaches and Vertigo

• Aids in morning headaches, particularly sharp and localized to the temporal region, more on the left side.
• Pain may radiate from over the eyes to the occiput, often with scowling or a need to rub the area.
• Beneficial in frontal pain just above the eyes and dizziness.

Orbital Pain & Lachrymation

• Relieves eye aching, soreness to touch, and morning eyelid adhesion.
• Indicated for smarting eyes, lachrymation, and orbital pain extending to the occiput.
• Eases stabbing pains in the ear lobes, especially left side.

Sore Throat and Sneezing

• Helps in stinging and burning of the nasal passages, especially in the morning.
• Useful in left-sided watery discharge, nasal stoppage, and frequent sneezing.
• Indicated in sore, burning, and smarting throat, with granular appearance and sticky mucus.
• Alleviates rawness and oedema of the throat, sometimes making breathing difficult.
• Soreness often worse on the left side, but improved by cold air or holding the head.

Sexual Excitement

• Indicated for morning and night sexual excitement, sometimes prolonged.

General Weakness

• Homarus gammerus is useful in strange body sensations, feeling as if unable to move or act.
• Aids general malaise, with weakness after exertion and relief after eating.
• Often experiences a rolling, full pulse with chilliness and feverish episodes.